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On This Day: May 6, 1983 - The Hitler Diaries Exposed as a Hoax

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: May 6, 1983 - The Hitler Diaries Exposed as a Hoax.

On this day May 6, 1983, the infamous Hitler Diaries were officially revealed to be a hoax. The supposed personal journals of Adolf Hitler had been published by a German magazine and gained international attention, with media outlets and historians eager to uncover their contents. Just weeks after the initial release, scientific analysis and historical inconsistencies exposed the documents as fraudulent.

The forgeries were created by Konrad Kujau, a German con artist who had been selling...
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